Here's the goods. Thanks to Tarshan for finding the spell, Blasword for being the first to get the full reading of it first, Antipater for getting the scholarship boost, and Illonis for healing all the incinerated limbs.

BASIC INFORMATION:

The yellowed scroll contains a complete description of the Limb Disruption spell.

"An ancient spell that was previously lost for ages, Limb Disruption is a violent form of targeted magic. Death is not easy to achieve since this unstable sorcery can not be directed at vital locations such as the head or chest, but it is highly suited for inflicting devastating amounts of damage to your victim's legs and arms. A perfect spell for anyone wishing to deliver massive pain upon his target, or for those who delight in the tactical advantage of blasting the opponent's feet out from beneath him."
Roundtime: 15 sec.

You have learned Limb Disruption [ld] from a scroll and must maintain at least rather more than half your normal attunement to keep it. (~70/134)

Min prep: 8
Max prep: 40
Personal cap: ~30 (with 350PM/340Harness)

VISUALS:

You gesture at a blue-belly crocodile.
A purplish, bruise-colored stream coalesces in the air next to your head, then explodes into fragments of mauve and violet that race toward a blue-belly crocodile!
The churning wave of colored light slams into its right arm, landing a very heavy hit!
Roundtime: 1 second.

You gesture at a blue-belly crocodile.
The mana you were holding contributes to the spell.
A purplish, bruise-colored stream coalesces in the air next to your head, then explodes into fragments of mauve and violet that race toward a blue-belly crocodile!
The churning wave of colored light slams into its left arm, landing a very heavy hit!
The blue-belly crocodile is lightly stunned!
Roundtime: 1 second.

Pureblade gestures at a blue-belly crocodile.
With a glare, a blazing red light sparkles in his eyes!
A purplish, bruise-colored stream coalesces in the air next to his head, then explodes into fragments of mauve and violet that race toward a blue-belly crocodile!"
The churning wave of colored light slams into its left arm, landing a very heavy hit!

COMMENTS:

The spell can be fine targetted, but only on limbs. There is a level of irony with being told "you can't fine target this spell" when aiming at the chest of the critter, because generally the fine targets would be things like limbs and eyes.

The damage caps rather quickly. This is because limb damage caps out around extremely heavy or something like that. So I really didn't see much of a difference in what I prepped at.

The spell DOES cause very small nerve damage. By the time a croc was dead, it would have minor twitching.

The spell makes arms explode less than Mana Disruption but more than Energy Manacles (at least for Holy magic users).

The spell looks like the mirror of smite foe. Summons a stick instead of a hammer that hits a limb instead of the chest.

"With a glare, a blazing red light sparkles in his eyes!" I want all my spells to be cast with that, damnit.

The spell doesn't seem to unbalance, which is odd since it's made to hit limbs. I would have expected that.

The spell isn't a very effective attack spell, even though it isn't meant to be a killing spell in it's discription. I'd rather just FS/TKT/CHS/etc the target instead.

I really do hate the new 'influx of mana blows you up good' rule. I can see that being needed in Mana Disruption for what it does, but Limb Disruption isn't exactly an unbalancing spell.

RECCOMENDATIONS:

(As a sidenote. I only tested in crocs (darn 4-leggers), and tomorrow I'll test on goblins. So I can't say how it reacts to humaniods. But, I'd like to see these added to the spell. If they already got them and I find out tomorrow, I'm glad they're here.)

If it hits a limb/hand, it can knock the weapon out of that limb/hand.

If it hits a leg, it can trip the target.

Let it hit heads, and if it hits the head, it knocks them out for a bit.

A high prep summons more sticks/clubs/etc to bash limbs with. There needs to be a way to deal more than high-end heavy with this spell.

RESULT:

I like the spell. It's pretty fun even though it's not that powerful of a TM spell. The harness req is pretty much what I expected. The only big issue I have is the arm incineration part. I'd never use this spell because having four very heavy bleeders pop up on you randomly is very annoying/fatal.

To me, the stream of energy forming next to the caster's head when the spell is cast is stick-like. :P

>>Pureblade gestures at a blue-belly crocodile.
>>With a glare, a blazing red light sparkles in his eyes!

You are SUCH a good Paladin.

~Serienna

>>You are SUCH a good Paladin.

Best Paladin ever. I want sparkling red eyes now. Where's Shaunn...

>>if you have 30 target and are trying to blow up a crocs limb its not gonna be as strong as you hope it would be

This would be correct except for one small thing.

The damage is being registered as if it was a real attack.

Light hit, good hit, strong hit, etc.

When dealing with limbs, damage through that kind of means caps out at like extremely heavy. This means that there's no way to do something like apoc damage with this spell.

That was how much mana Pureblade, a paladin character, had to hold in reserve.

Would the same hold true if it were,say, a WM or MM? or would the harness amount vary according to the guild of the character that invoked it?

>>close enough :)

Woops! Tanshar. I knew that, heh.

And I'll be testing vs players today! :D